Faithful Fools is a community of people who live and work in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco (in a building at 425 Hyde St. that\u2019s painted purple). It was co-founded in 1998 by Kay Jorgensen, a Unitarian Universalist minister,\u00a0and is still going strong.<\/p>\n
Kay worked at the Unitarian Universalist\u00a0Society of San Francisco, dedicating her efforts to connecting the Tenderloin neighborhood (just a 10 minute walk down the hill) to the Church.\u00a0The Tenderloin has a reputation, which for some is negative, but\u00a0for others, is vibrant and creative.<\/p>\n
The Faithful Fools\u2019 mission is to live a life\u00a0<\/strong>of \u201cpresence\u201d there, to acknowledge each\u00a0resident’s\u00a0inherent\u00a0worth.\u00a0 Being aware of their own and other people\u2019s judgments, they encounter people in their neighborhood where and as they are.<\/p>\n To do this, they often take\u2014and lead guests on–long, leisurely all-day walks through the Tenderloin streets, to interact with residents and shatter myths about people who live in poverty.\u00a0 These observations and conversations enable walkers\u00a0“to see the light, courage, intelligence, strength, and creativity of the people they meet.”<\/p>\n Isolation is a symptom of poverty, so the Faithful Fools offer \u201caccompaniment,\u201d which\u00a0may\u00a0mean helping their neighbors access home furnishings when\u00a0they\u00a0get housing, provide rental support when they\u2019re at risk of eviction, being with them as they stand in line, fill out forms, or wait on hold to set up an appointment.<\/p>\n They may provide continuity of care after someone\u2019s discharge from a hospital,\u00a0or through treatment for cancer. They may offer companionship to get through difficult times like a divorce or eviction; or to celebrate a birth or marriage. Their accompaniment creates a relationship that transforms charitable service\u00a0into community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faithful Fools is a community of people who live and work in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco (in a building at 425 Hyde St. that\u2019s painted purple). It was co-founded in 1998 by Kay Jorgensen, a Unitarian Universalist minister,\u00a0and is still going strong. Kay worked at the Unitarian Universalist\u00a0Society of San Francisco, dedicating her … Continue reading Some UUs Are Faithful Fools (#137)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}